Passacaglia & thema fugatum c-moll / C minor BWV 582 composed by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) performed by Andrea Marcon, organ click here for complete playlist: ru-vid.com_play_list...
@@gloriascientiae7435 That is not a 'popular' masterpiece, right, and the organ repertoire is largely unrecognized, even by classical musicians ! They are so many masterpieces unrecognized...
We don't know exactly the date of writing, but for different reasons we know that it is between 1706 and 1713, so Bach was rather young (between 21 and 28 y.o. !!!). Bach composed this Passacaglia after a 400 kms travel by foot to meet Buxehude and hear his own Passacaglia. The Thema is rather similar but Bach amplified the architecture, the counterpoint, the movements with a strong symbolism of numbers hidden in the text.
This is a perfect speed and people play it faster (which is not good.) . The reason is to feel the flow of each variation over the ground bass. Definitely slower interpretations are fine. But I have noted that such interpretations are often too slow and tend to really drag. You simply cannot do that with a chaccone or passacaglia. It just doesn't work.
I love how this passacaglia was directly influenced by Bach's visit with Buxtehude, the latter of whom was the big-shot in Lübeck, and Bach, who was in in 20s at the time, managed to take the passacaglia and completely revolutionize it.
Absolutely! Buxtehude's Passacaglia is the blueprint for this magnificent work. And Bach also borrowed the base melody from an André Raison. Bach was the seminal synthesiser, taking everything that was available to him and studying a variety of composers, then creating his own work that encompassed everything else and elevated each style, instrument and technique to its apex. He was raw genius.
This could easily be one of most majestic pieces ever written. It is so interesting how he bounded by strict frames of that time harmony, by rules of passacaglia and fugue, manages to write a piece that is so live and powerful that just seizes listener. It is like assembling an extra hard puzzle like Rubik's Cube better than anyone else. Maybe he was even bragging with this piece? :)
Actually, Bach breaks almost every musical rule existent at the time. After a composition exam, one of my colleagues tried to argue that his (faulty) parallel fifths were comparable to Bachs compositions, to which our professor simply replied: You can do that as soon as your works have reached the same popularity and quality as Bach's. Until then, you stick to the rules.
Esta música faz-me lembrar aquilo que deve ser o nosso último suspiro... quem saberá se não poderemos ouvi-la para eternidade? (que esta música foi escrita no céu, quem duvida?)
Yes, the beginning is breathtaking. I just wish this performer had started the opening pedal line very very softly, and just have this passacaglia and fugue be one very gradual crescendo till 13:01 where he taps the tutti piston, bringing the full organ on to close out the coda.
@@angryjalapeno How about "Die Kunst der Fuge" BWV 1080 also known as The Art of Fugue? EDIT: not specifically created for organ repertoire but it could count)
since i am a child i feel so so small when i listen to this music i never feel proud in the way of beeing able to achieve such levels on my own , i just have respect for these men , which you cant express in words and especially not in a foreign language ,,, but ofc i am proud to call them "my ancients" and i think that every german has the duty to at least hold the cultural lvl (or even increase) which our ancestors gave us
Omg the ending in this interpretation is so glorious. And I love when the piece "ends" at 13:00 and then hops back into it. Just so dramatic, it like sucks you out of your seat.
Yes because Bach had something down that took until Mozart and Beethoven for the world to get: REAL DRAMA on top of LIGHT. I don't think CPE, Clementi, or Haydn got that down. Most composers wouldn't put in codas or super varied showpiece ends before Bach's time.
３０年位まえでしょうか、J.S.のオルガンの曲にはまってしまってレコードを買いあさりましてこの音源です。このパッサカリアとフーガ ハ短調bwv582を聴いて感動して自然に頬をつたって涙がでていました。冬空の星のちりばめてる夜空をながめながら。線路の上の帰り道ですウオークマンの重低音でした。なんてすばらしいのでしょうか。この主旋律でフーガまで持って行く技術は凄い！頭の中すっきりします。脳みそ掃除されます。I LOVE パイプオルガン
Massive. Just massive. Wow. Yes there are differing approaches to the dynamics, here it is played strong from the start. I have heard with more lightness in parts, but this version is still an epic journey from/to the heart of creation. What a gift from Bach and any organist who dares tackle these profound works.
I love how the entire fugue is built on just those four beats. Two beats the same, and then two more the same. Either upside down, up a 1/2, up a whole, backwards (etc). Just those four beats. Amazing!!!!
@@schrysafis i believe he didnt complete it on purpose, the notes on the last theme stands for BACH in german music notation, i think he did it so we carried on with the art of the contrapunctus
@@carlosmendozapiano Have you also noticed that the 1st thema of Bach's last contrapunctus is symmetrical exactly the same melody if played reversed 1st note being the last note, the 2nd note the note before the last note and so on. Bach was the first musician mathematician.
@@schrysafis I didnt notice this, Bach is so outstanding to listen and study, I feel like everytime i discover something new, thx for pointing that out
I can imagine what it would feel like to wield that amount of musical power... I'm surprised he stayed as humble as the accounts of his life recall. I've known many people that, if granted this power, would have considered themselves to be no less than demigods...
I think he remained humble because he believed that his music was in service to the Divine, and thus higher than human beings. Furthermore, he is believed to have said that his music was better because he "was obliged to be industrious."
Dude haha it’s so funny I have used the same terms with J.S. Bach… wielding power, as you correctly identify this work of Art, as representative of the forces sculpting our reality. Bach was for an unknown reason, allowed to craft a window into our deeper consciousness and even, source.
As to your other point, creativity on this level was for Bach only a result of God’s benefaction. So to me that is why he remained humble. If he had been arrogant beyond due respect I actually somehow believe the music would likewise have been tainted.
Questa e' la Sacra Bibbia... ogni compositore dovrebbe disperarsi nella contemplazione uditiva della monumentale musica di Bach. Queste note spazzano via tutta l'altra musica.
It is belittling to attribute the hours of work, years of determination (imagine just walking up those stairsnevery day! Let alone the work put in to the actual music) and saying Bach did none of it. Saying Bach is blessed by god is like saying Bach is 'talent' implying he was lazy implying he didn't need to work and that he didn't work - Bach worked incredibly hard and he deserves to have respect. Through Bach's music i hear some devine entity and his name is Bach
Special Universe but it is belittling to say that god spoke through Bach It's an arrogant make-believe play to put everyone on the same trounds as yourself (not necessarily you but 'you' i.e. Whoever uses this statement). Because it sits better in people's minds to say 'we're all special' (which really means 'yeay i'm special too') 'and god just chose abach'. People like saying that because it makes themselves feel better. What they don't like to admit is 'Bach was better than me, because Bach tried harder than me, Bach thought harder than me and Bach struggled harder than me' because that would imply that you aren't so special and that maybe effort was put into Bach's music. Like when you thank god for the food that someone else spends their life struggling to produce for next to no earnings, people suffer for your enjoyment and you thank your imaginary friend for their struggles. Bach was a genius, and Bach worked hard and Bach suffered to make his music, Bach worked harder than you could ever imagine he did. So don't tell me that saying 'god spoke through Bach' isn't belittling because i can't think of anytning more belittling. I have more respect for someone who said they hated Bach's music than i do for someone who uses Bach's life work (and indeed the life work of anyone) and Bach's life and Bach's whole existance that HE and he himself built up from scratch in order to make themselvss feel better or to promote their own unproveable delusions. Bach is a God in music; Bach was god-like in his power and genius; but Bach was Bach, and there's no bigger compliment than that; and Bach wasn't divinely inspired, because there s no greater insult than that
Special Universe if we're defining god as a concept of sense and emotion then i say that Bach's music is the foice of god, as is Chopin's of a different kind of god. But if we're talking about the probably non-existant magic man who sent his son on a suicide mission because he had a temper tantrum and still hasn't forgiven people for the sins they haven't committed, sends people to burn for all eternity, falsely claims that he loves them, has caused almost every major conflict and gives AIDs to Africans and the systematic and organised raping of children - then no i won't accept that voice. If there were a vlice of that god then it'd be Justin Bieber, because like justin bieber's voice, it's fake, annoying, self righteous, lying, manipulative and doesn't stand on its own merit. Bach made his music from his mind and there is indeed something that is almost beyond human and we call it 'genius' but 'genius' is a disposition not an instant level-up. Just like how Beethoven wandered theough the woods and spent decades composing the simplest of melodies and crafting the most intricate structures, Bach made his music from his efforts. The divinity that i hear in abach's music is the sound of a man that defines musical generations and remained influential from Baroque right through to impressionism. Not the voice of some lie to get children to behave themselves and to stop people from finding out the truth of the world. I'm not here, believe it or not, to debate the existance of god. I'm here to stop this selfish, needy and disgusting act of defilement of the work of Bach (and as i said prior, this applies to any great person) by saying that he has a connection to an invisible magic man in the clouds that conveniently works in mysterious ways but only when it helps specific people do specific things. In Bach's work i hear a god that i call 'abachM, he was a human with no special powers but he devoted himself to music for his whole life and achieved things most people can't accept as being avhieveable by humanity, the parnassum of human achievement - i don't hear the stories of an old myth told to people who didn't know that the sky wasn't a carpet - it's degrading. But like i said, if the 'god' we're referring to is in fact this fantastic achievement that we couldn't imagine anyone else could make, genius on the levels of Newton and Einstein, then yes i agree Bach was a musical god and had a 'spiritual' connection to music. But it is, as you said, his music, his inspiration and his efforts and no one has the right (no matter how deluded or how much they believe in the magic man) to violate his music in such a way as to even suggest or imply that it wasn't his full attention and his full inspiration and his full commitment He devoted his life to music, and we should respect that the music speaks volumes of his dedication not volumes of doctrine passages
Special Universe i agree, that is what 'god' in a sinscere sense means to me. A person of a higher level of genius, that might very well be unattainable to anyone else. Though i don't like saying it's impossible because when people try to be like Bach we get the brilliant semi-clunterpoint of Chopin and the wonderful fugues that pertained and adapted to the romantic era due to his influence. If Bach existed as a god in music it only makes sense to follow his methods. I do consider Bach to be a god, to my definition, a musical god whose music transcends us and we worship, even if not religiously, we worship and champion his music. A famous astrophysicist whose name wscapes me but you can google the quote if you're interested, said 'if i could send one thing into space for intelligent life to observe, it would be the complete collection of Johannes Sebastian abach... But that would be boasting' and i need not explain why that is true on so many levels. If there were a musician greater than Bach (although musicians can be great in different ways) then i think it'd be too complex for human brains to comprehend because no one else can harmonise, can formulate, can structure, can plot such complex harmonies and techniques while still pertaining to the most sublime or the most passion and emotional melodies. That is why Bach was a living God and is still to this day a musical legend whose legacy still overshadows and humiliates all musicians who consider themselves great, that they might one day look to the sky and listen to the world and see his shadow and hear his sounds then realise their own arrogance. Bach was indeed a god amongst men and a champion of every aspect of music like no one before, during or after
One of the band leaders of one of the late night politics talk show bands made a great comment about Bach on an episode of Fresh Aire: “Bach is the best at doin’ a thing, in the whole history of doin’ a thing.” I heartily agreed.
God _alone_, actually.....Bach was the soul of modesty. At the end of each score, religious or not, he wrote "S.D.G.", for "Soli Deo gloria"--"To God alone the glory ". At the beginning he wrote,. "J.J.", for "Jesus, juva"--"Jesus, help me."
Wolfgang Drachenberg It is mind-blowing to think that we have access to a time three-hundred years in the past. This is of course magnified when one considers communications from the Egyptians, and the innovation of papyrus. I predict that the twenty-first century will be forgotten in history. Ours is a time of much noise, with the ability to communicate to billions but with nothing of value to say.
If that's what you're thinking about because it reminds me of generic 'spooky' organ music from campy horror films or perhaps Castlevania which is based off campy horror films (and that is exactly what you mean when you say you feel like a 'vampire lord', isn't it?); you don't understand this music at all and aren't really listening to it. You could listen to anything with a pipe organ sound and get the feeling you describe - no need for something as rich as Bach. The structure of this seems to be wasted on you.
@@helvete_ingres4717 Oh dear gods, are you suggesting I don't have the intellectual capacity to appreciate Bach?! The genius of Bach is that he utilizes those incredibly complicated musical structures and creates something as grand and powerful as he does, which is not something that is easy to do. Just because I also like the "spooky" connotation doesn't exclude me from appreciating that fact.
There IS no 'spooky connotation' - only if you're an idiot for whom pipe organ = 3spooky5me111 because of dumb movies. 'complicated' is wank and means wank. Don't talk to me with pasted platitudes about 'the genius of Bach'. Bach wrote music to glorify God and to elicit contemplation of the infinite in Man, and some punk in the 21st century connects this same music to undead demons that feed off the living because they never heard an organ play outside of Hammer horror films? Give me a break.
Bach (particularly his Toccata and Fugue in D minor, if it was indeed written by Bach) was first used to accompany silent horror movies in the 1920s-- some of these movies are considered classics now, so I wouldn't go around calling them "dumb" movies. Obviously there is *now* a spooky connotation because of that, or we wouldn't be addressing it; I am well aware that Bach's contemporaries didn't make the same association. If you want to go around feeling like you're tastes are superior to that of the mainstream culture because this music is somehow more enlightened (which is probably why my comment offends you), you can certainly go ahead while I continue listening to and enjoying Bach however I damn well please.
It is an organist´s privilege to interpret and register this complex piece the way he likes (provided he can play it correctly). I like most Walcha´s (and myself¡)
Thank you! Discovered this piece thanks to Professor Robert Greenberg of the Teaching Company. Not being a real musician, I don't think I would have noticed the base line repeated throughout. I love it!!
they were all geniouses for their kind but they are not of the same caliber as bach and you even know it i guess , cause bach is the absolute top notch and unreached yet
I hear SO MUCH of Buxtehude's passacaglia and chaconne...especially in the fugue. Many have said that Buxtehude's passacaglia was the inspiration for this piece, and while that may be true, Bach clearly wanted to recreate his style in this piece. It's blatant- almost as if they wrote it together. Beautiful.
In music there is only one serious Passacaglia, this one, others being mere interesting also rans. As my university music theory prof Anton Ledwith once said, I have one simple requirement for this 4-part chorale style writing class: if Bach employed your method it's right, if he didn't it's wrong. Words can't begin to describe the profound, brilliant and exquisite nature of his counterpoint & polyphony; compared to him everything else is virtually mere noise. Soli Deo gloria!
@gabriellando Couldn't have put it better myself. Bach is indeed someone more than a composer, he is the essence of music and musical composition in it's entirity. No one has come before or after, whom matches Bach's magnificence.
Finally Bach's Passacaglia!!! I love this piece!! Kind of funny... i was listening to it and checked my YoutTube account and I happened to see it being uploaded :) I just love it!
I never actually appreciated how brilliant this piece is the first time I heard it. Following the score, I now realize its genius. And to think that Bach borrowed the main theme from André Raison, and based this off Buxtehude's own Passacaglia! Amazing!
if you can see only 2 countrys with major spiritual classic music you have a lot to listening yet but indeed you spoke about 3 great composers with bach in my opion headlighting the list..
Massimiliano Maggi Impressionante!!! Bach, que é sempre insuperável, nesta obra julgo que consegue superar-se ao conseguir o limite da perfeição. É mesmo impressionante!!!
